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Asheville in North Carolina had around 20,000 visits this weekend for the Southern Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament, which made parking pretty difficult, and perfect timing for parking ticket-related mischief.

Fake tickets for $100 (£70) complete with a fake officer ID, a made-up violation code and a QR code for smart phones to scan were found on a number of these cars.

But that’s not all: scan the QR code and your phone redirects you to the music video for Rick Astley’s 1987 banger, ‘Never Gonna Give You Up.’

‘It was kind of surprising to go to a link for a YouTube video, and then when I went it was featuring some rock star that I didn’t know who it was,’ Ken Putman, Asheville’s Transportation Director, told WLOS.